that the 'left-wing press' (which, in reality, is just the Daily Mirror), are ineffectual, or that they're less likely to go after a leader for his or her personal life, or that they do and they get torn to pieces, completely dominating the newsstands for months at a time?

In it's earliest incarnation it at least served a tad of purpose as a `lifting the lid on dodgy stuff going on in Westminster` kinda thing. Thing is Staines is now a Westminster insider just like any other hack, although he does seem to pick up scoops better than most (not that that alone is worth sparing him for).

Think I hate Harry Cole the most out of all of them to be honest. He's like Richard Hammond to Staines' Clarkson. Weasely little cunt.

the policeman who killed tomlinson did actually face manslaughter charges a year later and was dismissed despite being found guilty. i don't think the CPS was too poorly implicated in it really
the twitter joke thing the claim is that starmer pursued it so aggressively just to get a judgement to set a precedent and stop similar prosecutions getting through in future. which is all well and good but there was a guy whose life was completely fucked with for a very long time for this